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class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wycombe_Abbey_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Wycombe Abbey School">Wycombe Abbey School</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Margaret_Hall,_Oxford" title="Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford">Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output 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Empire">OBE</a></span></span> (23 January 1940 – 29 February 2020) was a British biographer and <a href="/wiki/Cultural_history" title="Cultural history">cultural historian</a> best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-century art and design. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fiona MacCarthy was born in <a href="/wiki/Sutton,_Surrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutton, Surrey">Sutton, Surrey</a>, in 1940,<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> into an upper-class background, from which she spent much of her life escaping. Her father, Gerald MacCarthy, was an officer in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> and was killed in action in North Africa during the Second World War in 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-DTelobit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DTelobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fiona MacCarthy, her sister and mother, Yolande, lived in London and then Scotland before returning to London.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her grandmother, the Baroness de Belabre, was a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_McAlpine,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet">Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet</a>, who built and owned the <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorchester Hotel">Dorchester Hotel</a>, and much of her childhood was spent in the hotel. Supposedly safe from bombing raids, her family took refuge there during <a href="/wiki/The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">The Blitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DTelobit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DTelobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MacCarthy was educated at <a href="/wiki/Wycombe_Abbey_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Wycombe Abbey School">Wycombe Abbey School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, after a spell in Paris, she was a <a href="/wiki/Debutante" title="Debutante">debutante</a> being presented to the Queen at <a href="/wiki/Queen_Charlotte%27s_Ball" title="Queen Charlotte's Ball">Queen Charlotte's Ball</a> in the final year of the 200-year-old ritual, an experience MacCarthy recounted in her memoir, <i>Last Curtsey: the End of the Debutantes</i> (2007).<sup id="cite_ref-Independent_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was one of only four of that year's debutantes to go on to university, in her case studying for a degree in <a href="/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature">English literature</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lady_Margaret_Hall,_Oxford" title="Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford">Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduation, MacCarthy's first job was as a merchandise editor and then journalist on <i><a href="/wiki/House_%26_Garden_(magazine)" title="House & Garden (magazine)">House & Garden</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MacCarthy joined <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in 1963 initially as an assistant to the women's editor <a href="/wiki/Mary_Stott" title="Mary Stott">Mary Stott</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DTelobit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DTelobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was then appointed the newspaper's design correspondent, working as a features writer and columnist, sometimes using a pseudonymous byline to avoid two articles appearing in the same issue.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this role, she interviewed <a href="/wiki/David_Hockney" title="David Hockney">David Hockney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Betty_Friedan" title="Betty Friedan">Betty Friedan</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> among others.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She left <i>The Guardian</i> in 1969, briefly becoming women's editor of the London <i><a href="/wiki/Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a></i>, before settling in Sheffield.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Sheffield, MacCarthy became a biographer and critic. After writing a biography of the arts and crafts designer <a href="/wiki/Charles_Robert_Ashbee" title="Charles Robert Ashbee">C. R. Ashbee</a>, she came to wider attention as a biographer with a once-controversial study of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a> craftsman and sculptor <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a>, first published in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequent biographies of <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Spencer" title="Stanley Spencer">Stanley Spencer</a> in 1997 and of <a href="/wiki/Byron" class="mw-redirect" title="Byron">Byron</a> in 2002 enhanced her reputation for undertaking detailed research into her subjects.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MacCarthy was also known for her arts essays and reviews, which appeared in <i>The Guardian</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She contributed to TV and radio arts programmes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fiona MacCarthy was a <a href="/wiki/Fellow" title="Fellow">Fellow</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> (1997),<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Art" title="Royal College of Art">Royal College of Art</a>. </p><p>She was appointed an <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">Officer of the Order of the British Empire</a> (OBE) for services to literature in the <a href="/wiki/2009_Birthday_Honours" title="2009 Birthday Honours">2009 Birthday Honours</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was awarded honorary doctorates by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sheffield" title="University of Sheffield">University of Sheffield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Hallam_University" title="Sheffield Hallam University">Sheffield Hallam University</a> and was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts. </p><p>Her biography <i>William Morris: A Life for our Time</i> (1994) was winner of the <a href="/wiki/Wolfson_History_Prize" title="Wolfson History Prize">Wolfson History Prize</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Writers%27_Guild_of_Great_Britain" title="Writers' Guild of Great Britain">Writers' Guild</a> Non-fiction Award. <i>The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination</i> won the 2012 James Tait Black prize for Biography. Her life of <a href="/wiki/Walter_Gropius" title="Walter Gropius">Walter Gropius</a>, founder of the <a href="/wiki/Bauhaus" title="Bauhaus">Bauhaus</a>, was published in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Her first marriage to Ian White-Thompson ended in divorce. In 1966, she married the Sheffield-based silversmith and cutlery designer <a href="/wiki/David_Mellor_(designer)" title="David Mellor (designer)">David Mellor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Independent_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She first met him when she went to interview him for <i>The Guardian</i> in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two children, <a href="/wiki/Corin_Mellor" title="Corin Mellor">Corin</a> and Clare, both of whom have now become designers. After suffering from dementia for some years, Mellor died in May 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fiona MacCarthy died from <a href="/wiki/Multiple_myeloma" title="Multiple myeloma">multiple myeloma</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Hallamshire_Hospital" title="Royal Hallamshire Hospital">Royal Hallamshire Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a> on 29 February 2020, aged 80.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HorwellGdn_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HorwellGdn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1972 <i>All Things Bright and Beautiful: British Design 1830 to Today</i></li> <li>1981 <i>The Simple Life: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Robert_Ashbee" title="Charles Robert Ashbee">C. R. Ashbee</a> in the Cotswolds</i></li> <li>1984 <i>The <a href="/wiki/Omega_Workshops" title="Omega Workshops">Omega Workshops</a>: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury</i></li> <li>1989 <i><a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-58531-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-58531-3">0-394-58531-3</a>)</li> <li>1997 <i><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Spencer" title="Stanley Spencer">Stanley Spencer</a>: An English Vision</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0300073379" title="Special:BookSources/978-0300073379">978-0300073379</a>)</li> <li>2002 <i><a href="/wiki/Byron" class="mw-redirect" title="Byron">Byron</a>: Life and Legend</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7195-5621-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-7195-5621-X">0-7195-5621-X</a>)</li> <li>2007 <i>Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-571-22859-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-571-22859-3">0-571-22859-3</a>)</li> <li>2011 <i>The Last Pre-Raphaelite: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones" title="Edward Burne-Jones">Edward Burne-Jones</a> and the Victorian Imagination</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-571-22861-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-571-22861-4">978-0-571-22861-4</a>)</li> <li>2019 <i> Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus </i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-571-29513-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-571-29513-5">978-0-571-29513-5</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exhibitions">Exhibitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Exhibitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She curated the following exhibitions: </p> <ul><li><i>Homespun to Highspeed: British Design 1860 to 1960</i> for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sheffield_Museums_and_Art_Galleries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sheffield Museums and Art Galleries (page does not exist)">Sheffield Museums and Art Galleries</a>, 1979</li> <li><i>The Omega Workshops: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury</i> for the <a href="/wiki/Crafts_Council" title="Crafts Council">Crafts Council</a>, 1984</li> <li><i>Eye for Industry: retrospective of the Royal Designers</i> for the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>, 1986</li> <li><i>Byron</i> for the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a>, 2002</li> <li><i>Anarchy and Beauty, William Morris and his Legacy</i> for the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a>, 2014</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiona_MacCarthy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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